A fast, modern site for a small or medium business, written around what your customers actually search for and built so Google and the AI assistants can both read it. Five pages from £1,200, live in two to three weeks, and you own every part of it when it is done.
Most small business websites fail in one of two ways. Either they look fine and nobody ever finds them, or they were cheap, they load in six seconds and the phone number is an image. Both are expensive, just not on the invoice.
What I build is a site that answers the questions a customer has before they phone you, loads in under a second on a phone on a bad signal, and carries the technical groundwork that makes it findable. That groundwork is not a package tier here. It is how the site is built, so it costs nothing extra.
Five pages is the starting point because five is usually what a business needs: who you are, what you do, proof that you can do it, how much, and how to reach you. A trade with twelve distinct services needs twelve pages, and each one of those earns its keep in search rather than padding a sitemap.
That is a real starting number, not a loss leader with the useful parts removed. Here is exactly what moves it, so you can work out roughly where you land before you email me.
£1,200 +
From · 5 pages · live in 2 to 3 weeks
Design, build, copy shaping, structured data, search and AI groundwork, and Google Business Profile setup. Care and hosting afterwards is £45 a month, with no contract.
Live in 2 to 3 weeks
A conversation about the business, not about websites. Who your customers are, what they ask before they buy, what you want more of and what you would rather stop doing.
The page list, the headings and the copy, shaped around real searches. This is the part that decides whether the site works, and it happens before anything is designed.
Designed on a phone screen first and built as it is designed, so there is no handover gap where the detail goes missing. You see it on a real URL as it comes together.
Launch, redirects from any old URLs, structured data checked, sitemap submitted, Google Business Profile set up, and llms.txt in place for the AI crawlers.
A UKCA-marked structural steel fabricator established in 1985, whose customers check them out online before picking up the phone. A fast, content-rich site built to show real capability and turn enquiries into work.
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An award-winning community interest company carrying four offers at once: affordable workspaces, consultancy, mobility and volunteering. Rebuilt and rethemed on WordPress, with a colour-coded system for the four strands and an accessible palette throughout.
Read the case studyA five page website starts at £1,200, including the design, the build, the copy shaping, the structured data and the Google Business Profile setup. More pages, online payments, bookings or a migration from an old platform push it up. Care and hosting afterwards is £45 a month with no contract.
Two to three weeks for a five page site, from the point the content exists. The build is rarely what sets the pace: it is usually the copy, the photographs and the one person who has to approve things. If you have that material ready, or you are happy for me to shape the copy from a conversation, three weeks is realistic. If a page needs twelve services written from scratch, it takes longer, and I will say so before we start rather than halfway through.
Yes, and it is a common reason people get in touch. Rescuing content from a platform nobody has the login for takes longer than starting clean, so a migration pushes the price up rather than down. The important part is what happens to your search rankings: existing URLs are either kept exactly as they are or redirected properly to their new homes, so the pages Google already knows about do not quietly turn into dead ends on launch day.
Both, and which one you need depends on who is going to edit the site. Hand-built is faster, cheaper to run and has nothing to keep patching, which suits most five to fifteen page business sites. WordPress makes sense when a team needs to publish without asking anyone, or when the site is already there and the real job is design and structure rather than starting again. The Circle is the second kind: rebuilt and rethemed on WordPress because the organisation publishes constantly.
Tell me what your business does, how many pages you think you need and whether anything has to be booked or paid for on the site. I will come back with a scope, a fixed number and an honest view of how long it will take.
dave@daveellis.devEdinburgh · Working with businesses across Scotland, the UK and worldwide